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The former Co-op Building, Lichfield Street

The whole facade is covered in white faience.  The history of this building, and its context in the history of the Wolverhampton and District Co-operative Society, can be found in Ned Williams, The Co-op in Birmingham and the Black Country, Uralia Press, 1993.  The core of this building dates from 1929-31 but it was extensively rebuilt and the present frontage added in work which started in 1938 but was interrupted by World War II  "and work on the frontage was not able to resume until 1950".  So the precise date of the faience is in doubt but it does not matter that much - the result is pure 30s.


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